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Elections 2011, Imo, Latest Politics, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, State News
Saturday, May 7th, 2011
Owerri – Imo State capital virtually stood still as loyalists of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, stromed the streets of the municipality to jubiliate over the declaration of their principal, Chief Rochas Anayo Okorocha, as the winner of the governorship election in the state. Motorcyclists, who were hitherto banned from plying the streets of the […]
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All People Grand Alliance (APGA), Elections 2011, Imo, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, Party Politics, State News, Top Stories
Saturday, May 7th, 2011
All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, governorship candidate, Rochas Okorocha, has won the Imo state gubernatorial elections. The final results announced by INEC Saturday morning, showed that the APGA candidate scored 336,859 votes with the incumbent governor Ikedi Ohakim scoring 290,490 votes. Supplementary governorship election were supposed to be held, yesterday, in four local councils and one […]
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Elections 2011, Governors, Imo, Latest Politics, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, State News
Friday, May 6th, 2011
As events in Imo State increasingly indicate that Governor Ikedi Ohakim may lose his treasured throne tonight as the gubernatorial election in Imo State concludes, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, has assured SaharaReporters that contrary to one of our earlier reports, he is in Abuja, not the United […]
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Elections 2011, Imo, Latest Politics, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, State News
Friday, May 6th, 2011
Today’s “Supplementary Elections” called by INEC to complete Imo’s “inconclusive” gubernatorial elections ran into troubled waters in Oguta local government area in the state as election materials failed to arrive the area on time. It was not clear what happened to the materials as at the time of filling this report but women in the […]
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Elections 2011, Governors, Imo, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, State News
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
The leadership of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, obviously took the gubernatorial polls in Imo State for granted. They believed that they had the structures, as well as completed and on_going projects executed by the present administration as their testimonial. Events have since shown that it was their biggest mistake. The opposition parties took […]
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Abia, Armed Forces, Elections 2011, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, State News
Monday, May 2nd, 2011
Abia State Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) governorship candidate Paul Ikonne has called for the resignation of the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.Gen Azubike Ihejirika, over the role of soldiers in last month’s polls. Ikonne spoke in Aba, last weekend. He said the soldiers were not above board. Ikonne alleged that the military […]
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Elections 2011, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), NNP Elections 2011 Updates, Presidency
Saturday, April 30th, 2011
FOLLOWING the violent protests that trailed Nigeria’s presidential polls in some parts of the North, the United States (U.S.) has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to constitute a federal cabinet that would bridge perceived political divisions in the country. Speaking with reporters on Thursday afternoon in Washington DC, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, Ambassador […]
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Elections 2011, Kaduna, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, State News
Saturday, April 30th, 2011
Yuguda Leads In Bauchi INCUMBENT Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governor of Kaduna State, Patrick Yakowa, yesterday coasted home to victory in the governorship election conducted in the state on Thursday. Yakowa led the polls in 13 out of the 23 local councils in the state. Also, Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State was leading the […]
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Bauchi, Elections 2011, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, NYSC (National Youth Service Corp), State News
Friday, April 29th, 2011
The Governor of Bauchi State, Malam Isa Yuguda, stunned journalists at the Government House, Bauchi, on Thursday when he said he too was attacked as a member of the National Youth Service Corps in Ibadan. Yuguda reasoned that the corps members, who were murdered last week in the state, only fulfilled their destinies. He […]
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Elections 2011, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, Top Stories
Friday, April 29th, 2011
NIGERIA has made history by organising a credible, transparent, free and fair general election for the first time. The United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Terence McCulley, gave Nigeria kudos at the Naval Headquarters, Abuja, during the presentation of the United States President Award to a Naval officer, Commodore Adeniyi Osinowo, who distinguished himself while serving […]
